Sununu: Santorum robocalls made me 'feel like throwing up'

By Emily Schultheis

02/29/12 04:33 PM EST

On a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Romney surrogate John Sununu said Rick Santorum's robocalls were an attempt to "screw up" the Michigan GOP primary — and that the concept made him "feel like throwing up."

Santorum targeted Democratic voters "even though three weeks ago he said that he did not think it was appropriate for Democrats to come in and do that," Sununu said. "And so if I may borrow a phrase from Santorum, I think what he did makes me feel like throwing up and unlike Santorum, I’m not going to regret what I just did."

He added that Santorum "ought to be ashamed of himself" for his actions on that front.

"He is screwing up the Republican process where Republicans ought to be entitled to Republican voters selecting the nominee," he said.

Other Romney supporters also blasted Santorum on the call. Former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan, for example, said the former Pennsylvania senator only reached out to Democrats as a last-ditch effort when he was dropping in the polls.

"Santorum didn’t take this action until he recognized that the Republican voters were about to reject him," she said.

And Idaho Superintendent of Public Schools Tom Luna added that Santorum is being used by Obama.

"If he knows it then shame on him," Luna said. "If he doesn’t know it hes just naïve."

Asked about Romney's own record of crossover voting, Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho dismissed the question and said there's no comparison between the two.

"Never once has [Romney] employed these underhanded tactics to draw in democrats," she said. "This was a blatant effort by Santorum to join forces with Obama."